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I cancelled my order for the 12 CD/7 Bluray set of these final 5 shows. Why you may wonder....because the reviews of the musical efforts panned the performances pretty darn much. The crowds were the events, the music was stiff and Trey tried covering JG's parts only to sound stiff and uninvolved.
Probably most in the crowd had never dropped acid by the time Jerry died 20 years ago....
A very long time friend and very trusted musical knowledgeable cat was at Santa Clara and he was very disappointed by the level of musical grooviness and cohesion...
Apparently if they were looking to go out in a blaze of glory someone forgot to bring the matches.
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Strangely enough, the endless GD series of concerts is completely uninteresting to me. But I did read this review and it piqued my interest- perhaps enough to eventually listen to a recording of the show.
Excellent posts- guys.
Hard to imagine much band/audience interaction in an 80,000 seat stadium where anyone near the band paid a small fortune for a ticket.
I think it was pretty much designed to financially prepare everyone for retirement right from the start.
... or Achilles Wheel as opening act to get the crowds hype!!!
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> Probably most in the crowd had never dropped acid by the time Jerry died 20 years ago....>Said Joel Selvin in his SF Chronicle review.
Edits: 06/29/15
200 bucks a head to see the Dead w/o Garcia? Wow!
figured the obvious out as well...
That's too bad. Maybe the crowd didn't get the memo and had a good time anyway.
I could never quite figure why I wasn't ever much of a phish fan until I finally went to see them last year. I have a lot of like minded music loving friends who just worshiped them and particularly Trey but their music always left me UN-satisfied, I guess is the best way to put it.
Trey just might be the finest technical jam guitarists in the land... a real maestro. But there is something missing with him. Which is... I think he's too good and gets bored. So to spice things up for himself he goes off on tangents both serious and just fucking off tangents. He reminds me of a jam band version of Frank Zappa. I can appreciate a little bit irrelevance but when everything is irrelevant then it just becomes disingenuous blabber and intellectual pretension. I also found the crowd to be a bunch of nerdy Trey loving gadfly's that broke away from their computers long enough to catch a 45 minute molly buzz and put on their "Phish Insiders" secret Pirate smiles. I'm sure they'll turn into future Parrots heads no doubt.
If you want to see a Dead Knock off band that has genuine day trippers, then get yourself to Wide Spread Panic show. BTW, disregard the fact that I'm from Athens Ga... it doesn't mean a thing.
"Anastasio has the improv cred he'd earned turning Phish into the second biggest jam band in the world, but his funky, syncopated style isn't in line with Garcia's flowing psychedelia."
And Widespread Panic is ok, but I never liked the lead singers attempt to actually sing.
And as far as Phish, who cares? Never liked them.
I am not surprised. I saw some footage and Trey looks like a cardboard cutout. We have a wealth of good recordings available from the real deal. I am good with that plus all the memories of seeing them at many different events.
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